He who would make his own
liberty secure must
guard even his
enemy from oppression; for if he
violates this
duty, he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself.

Those who expect
to reap the blessings of
freedom, must, like men, undergo the
fatigues of supporting it.

Heaven
desire how to put a proper price upon
freedom's goods, and it would be strange indeed, if so
celestial an article as
freedom should not be highly rated.

God is the first cause of all things ... only by
exercising reason can
humankind discover God.

I have always strenuously supported the
right of every man to his
own opinion, however different that
opinion might be to mine. He who denies
another this right makes a
slave of himself to his present
opinion, because he precludes himself the
right of changing it.

- Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was
America's most important political thinker.
There might never have been an American
Revolution without Thomas Paine's newsprint pamphlets - 'magazines'.

Thomas Paine was largely
self-educated. Thomas Paine came
to the colonies in 1774 after meeting Benjamin Franklin
in London, who encouraged and sponsored him. Thomas Paine wrote for
Pennsylvania Magazine, later became its editor and began working on
Common Sense in 1776.

These
liberals - including John
Hancock, John Adams, Samuel Huntington, Benjamin Rush and Benjamin Franklin - were
skeptical of the
institutions of
power that included the "kingly oppressions"
of monarchs, the Roman Catholic church and the
capitalist corporatism of that time
represented by the dominant predatory giant of the day - the
British
East India Company. The Crown bureaucrats considered these
liberally
thinking men radical agitators in much the
same way the controlling interests of
America view anyone who does not adher to corporate capitalist philosophy of
materialistic
consumerism.

"Great part of that order
which reigns among mankind is not
the effect of government. That order has
its origin in the principles of society and the
natural constitution of man. That order
existed prior to
government, and would continue to
exist if the formality of
government was abolished.

The
mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the
parts of civilized community upon each
other, create that great chain of
connection which holds it together.

Common interest regulates citizen's concerns, and forms
their law; and the laws which common usage
ordains, have a greater influence than the laws of
government.

No
one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants, and those
wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society, as
naturally as gravitation
acts.

Nature has implanted in man a
system of social affections, which,though not necessary to his
existence, are
essential to his
happiness.

The instant formal
government is abolished, society begins to
act:a general association takes place, and common interest produces common
security.

In short, man is so
naturally a creature of society that it is almost impossible to put him out of
it.

If we consider what the principle are that first condense
men into society, and what are the motives that regulate
their mutual intercourse afterwards, we shall find, by the time we arrive at
what is called government, that nearly the
whole of the business is performed by a natural operation of the parts upon each
other.

These laws are followed and
obeyed, because it is the
interest of the parties so to do,and not on account of any formal laws
their governments may impose or
interpose.

In those associations which men promiscuously form for the
purpose of trade, or of
any concern in which government is totally
out of the question, and in which they act merely on the principles of society,
we see how naturally the various parties unite; and this shows, by comparison,
that governments, so far from being always
the cause or means of order, are often the destruction of it.

One of the great
advantages of the American
Revolution has been,that it led to a discovery of the
principles, and laid open the imposition,
of governments.

All the
revolutions till then had been
worked within the atmosphere of a court, and never on the grand floor of a
nation.

The parties were always of the
class of courtiers; and
whatever was their rage for reformation, they carefully preserved the fraud of
the profession, blinding
the understanding of man,
and making him believe that
government is some wonderful
mysterious thing.

In all cases they
took care to represent government as a
thing made up of mysteries, which only they
themselves understood; and they hid from the
understanding of the
nation the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that
government is nothing more than a national
association adding on the principles of society.

Government, on
the old system, is an assumption of power, for
the aggrandizement of
itself; on the new, a delegation of power for
the common benefit of society. The former supports itself by keeping up a
system of war; the latter promotes a system
of peace, as the
true means of enriching a nation. The one
encourages national prejudices; the other
promotes universal society, as the means of universal
commerce. The one measures its
prosperity, by the quantity of
revenue it extorts; the other proves its excellence, by the small quantity of
taxes it requires.

Though it might be proved that the system of
government now called the new,
representative government, is the most
ancient in principle of all that have
existed, being founded on the original,
inherent rights of the
living
human being: yet, as
tyranny and the
sword have suspended the exercise of
those rights for many
centuries past, it serves better the
purpose of distinction to
call it the new, than to claim the right of calling it the old.

Having
thus glanced at a few of the defects of the old hereditary systems of
government, let us
compare it with the new, or
representative system. The representative system takes society and
civilization for its basis;
nature, reason, and experience, for its guide. The
representative system is always parallel with the order and
immutablelaws of nature. The representative
system diffuses such a body of knowledge
throughout a nation, on the subject of government, as to explode
ignorance and preclude
imposition.

Experience, in all
ages, and in all countries, has demonstrated that it is impossible to control
Nature in her distribution of
mentalpowers. Nature
gives them as she pleases. Whatever is the rule by which Nature, apparently to us, scatters them among
mankind, that
rule remains a
secret to man.

It would be
as ridiculous to attempt to fix the heredity of human
beauty, as of wisdom. Whatever wisdom constituently is, it is like a seedless
plant; it may be reared when it appears, but it cannot be voluntarily
produced..

The representative system of
government is calculated to produce the
wisest laws, by collecting
wisdom from where it can be found. Every
government that does not act on the
principle of a Republic, or in other
words, that does not make the res-publica its
whole and sole object, is not a good
government (not good = evil).

A republican form of
government is no other than
government established and conducted
for the interest of the public, individually as well as collectively.

A
republican form of government is not
necessarily connected with any particular form, but it most naturally
associates with the representative form, as being best calculated to secure the
end for which a nation is at the expense of supporting.

That which is
called government, or rather that which we
ought to conceive government to be, is no
more than some common center in which all
the parts of society unite. A nation is not a body, the figure of which is to
be represented by the human body; but is like a body contained within a circle,
having a common center, in which every
radius meets; and that center is formed by
representation.

In the representative
system, the reason for everything must
publicly appear (be
transparent).

Every man is a proprietor in
government, and considers it a necessary
part of his business to understand.

Government concerns his interest, because it
affects his property and his rights.

A
thinking man examines the cost, and
compares it with the advantages; and above all, he does not adopt the slavish
custom of following what in other governments are called
LEADERS." - Thomas Paine, The Rights of
Man

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